Category: Analytics

Lake Shore Obstetrics & Gynecology had an opportunity to integrate its clinical and financial processes when its leaders decided to implement an electronic health record (EHR). Up until then, the Chicago-based, eight-provider office had used an outside billing service and maintained separate financial and clinical records. …read more    

Boulder Community Hospital had a legacy electronic medical record system that its network of community physicians didn’t choose and — more importantly — weren’t happy with. Physician frustration with the system undermined the hospital’s vision of forward-looking, integrated care. …read more    

A federally qualified health center (FQHC) with sites across rural Arkansas and in five west-Kentucky counties (as KentuckyCare), ARcare found in 2012 that it had outgrown its existing electronic health record system. “We had a really good relationship with them,” explained Greg Wolverton, chief information officer at ARcare. “But the larger we got, the more…

Despite concerns to the contrary, electronic health records and e-reminders may not necessarily increase treatment disparities between white and non-white patients, at least when it comes to cancer screening, according to a recently published study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. read more …read more    

One in every three EHR adoptions fails. Survey results released in 2013 by the American College of Physicians indicated that since 2010, satisfaction and usability ratings for certified electronic health records (EHRs) have decreased among clinicians across a range of indicators. Overall, user satisfaction fell 12 percent from 2010 to 2012. …read more    

The movement towards a heightened focus on quality, outcomes and cost requires that healthcare organizations make the best use of data that is available to them. Advancement of health IT in the form EHRs has been an important first step in the health IT movement to accurately capture and house patient data. The next step…

Today’s technology, including advanced analytics, electronic health records and health information exchanges, are accelerating progress in the health industry at an exponential rate. Unfortunately, much of the insight collected and analyzed by this technology is limited to encounter and claims data. …read more    

It’s time to grow beyond yesterday’s population health management, and health organizations must employ uncommon methods to truly discover new methods to do so, according to Jason Burke, a senior advisor for advanced analytics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. read more …read more    

In the last 5 years, healthcare has undergone a significant transformation that has profoundly changed the way clinicians operate. Massive EMR adoption, clinical workflow automation, and the availability of volumes of previously inaccessible data have all contributed to tremendous change. Although these changes have improved performance in many areas, clinicians now spend too much time…

One in every three EHR adoptions fails. Survey results released in 2013 by the American College of Physicians indicated that since 2010, satisfaction and usability ratings for certified electronic health records (EHRs) have decreased among clinicians across a range of indicators. Overall, user satisfaction fell 12 percent from 2010 to 2012. …read more